kleptomaniacal

Example Sentences

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“It was a completely kleptomaniacal education,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

This is a disrespectful vocation by its nature—prying, voyeuristic, kleptomaniacal, and presumptuous.

From Time • Sep. 14, 2016

However, Robert De Niro, as a kleptomaniacal bicycle racer, and Leigh Taylor-Young as his perennially startled paramour, somehow manage to bring a small degree of charm and reality to the lamentable goings on.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week's unpromising premi�re involved a Manhattan corporate executive framed as a murderer by a kleptomaniacal kook.

From Time Magazine Archive

The buttons had resisted the best efforts of the kleptomaniacal river current, and I came out with the contents of my pocket wet but intact.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)